LaTeX

LaTeX Links to an external site. is the gold standard document preparation system for (technical) scientific publications. You will be using it to prepare your final report (you may use it for other course documents as well, but we do not enforce this).

In your repo there is a directory

report/example/final

Within that repo the (text) document that will generate your report pdf is

final.tex

To generate the pdf you type

latexmk final.tex

to produce your report

build/final.pdf

References that you want to cite go in the file

bibliography.bib

and should follow the format provided by the examples there.

A quick cheat-sheet is available here Download here

. The forum at https://tex.stackexchange.com Links to an external site. has the answers to all LaTeX-related questions imaginable (and some not imaginable).

If problems remain, first contact your fellow students, then your project advisors. If the projects remain, your project advisor will help you get in touch with Leif Andersson, who is the LaTeX expert at the department. If you want to install LaTeX on your own machine, you may install for instance TeXLive Links to an external site.. 

Overleaf

The department also has licenses for the online collaborative LaTeX editing tool Overleaf Links to an external site.. If your group wants to use Overleaf, send the account name of one of the group members to anton@control.lth.se. After being granted a licence, that person can then invite the rest of the group members to the Overleaf project. Simply add all the files in the report template to the project and it should compile without changing any settings.

You can also sync your Overleaf report with git, as described here Links to an external site..